 The Impact of FTAs on MENA Trade in Industrial and Agricultural ProductsMaria Dolores Parra and
Inmaculada MartÃnez-Zazoso
No 2014.03, Working Papers from International Network for Economic Research - INFER Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) trade for the period 1994-2010. The analysis distinguishes between industrial and agricultural trade separately to take into account the different liberalisation schedules. An augmented gravity model is estimated using up-to-date panel data techniques to control for all time-invariant bilateral factors that influence bilateral trade as well as for the so-called multilateral resistance. We also control for the endogeneity of the agreements and test for self-selection bias due to the presence of zero trade in our sample. The main findings indicate that both North-South- FTAs and South-South-FTAs have a similar impact in terms of increasing trade in MENA countries showing greater global market integration. We conclude that FTAs that include agricultural products, in which MENA countries have a clear comparative advantage, are more desirable for these countries than those only including industrial products. Pages: 31 pages Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inf:wpaper:2014.03 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from International Network for Economic Research - INFER Contact information at EDIRC. |
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